Cloud agility and security: Misperceptions dispelled

Real world strategies for migrating to the cloud securely

When companies move their IT assets to the cloud, they have an opportunity to realize cost savings, accelerate innovation and improve IT performance. Unfortunately, the utility of the cloud is constrained by perceptions and misperceptions about security and control. And even without appropriate controls in place, organizations are moving to the cloud at a very fast pace.

For those of us responsible for security, this is a terrifying proposition--our most precious assets are seemingly moving outside of our control. However, perhaps, the cloud is more secure than you realize. Perhaps the cloud is a chance for a restart for how your organization looks at security of its data and applications. In this webcast, we’ll dispel some of the misperceptions that exist and jump right into both “lift and shift” and cloud native strategies for migrating to the cloud securely. Knowledge is power and this is an opportunity to advance your team’s understanding of the cloud and how to accelerate the transition.

As the scope for security skill and expertise demanded of organizations extends, CISOs are increasingly turning to security consulting partners for strategic guidance and technical and advisory expertise.

There are a broad range of organizations in today’s market offering security consultancy services based on best practices and standard frameworks. Partnering with one of these firms can provide your organization with the technical expertise to improve network visibility and gain a clearer understanding of your vulnerabilities, provide the strategic and practical guidance that helps you prioritize and build out programs that enable business objectives, as well as advise on how to effectively engage with the C-suite.

What truly sets Secureworks’ information security consulting services apart is how we utilize our Counter Threat Unit™ and knowledge garnered from thousands of client engagements to ensure you are being consulted on the latest industry trends and threats. This way, the outcome is based on real-world scenarios that matter to your organization.

Join consultants across our technical and strategic practices as they share lessons learned from their most challenging engagements and the value that real-time threat intelligence has brought to those engagements.

Key topics discussed include:

• Examples of real-world engagements where the CTU™ and Consulting Practice improved the outcomes for clients
• Tools consultants use to ensure that your outcome is based on real-world scenarios and threats that matter to your organization
• Lessons learned from our most strategic and complex engagements

There seems to be no shortage of threats these days with attackers constantly innovating and combining different techniques with classic malware. New ransomware variants, targeted espionage campaigns, and attacks that don’t use malware at all are just a few threats that put your organization at risk. As each new attack generates global headlines, it can feel a bit overwhelming.

It’s increasingly clear that the signature-based approach of traditional antivirus (AV) can no longer provide the protection needed to keep attackers off your endpoints. Join John Collins, SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit Principal Architect and Mike Viscuso, Carbon Black CTO, as they discuss how managed Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) goes beyond malware prevention to ensure that organizations of all sizes stay out of the security headlines and one step ahead of emerging cyber threats.

You will learn:
• What are the indicators that I need NGAV?
• How do I know when it is time to make the move from traditional AV to NGAV?
• Why is managed NGAV better able to address Ransomware, PowerShell and WMI threats?
• What managed NGAV can do for you

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a Microsoft Windows administrative tool that has access to all system resources, making it powerful for both legitimate and illegitimate use. Via WMI you can do things like execute, delete and copy files; change registry values; and identify what security products are installed to aid in bypassing them.

The malicious use of WMI and other legitimate tools continues to grow and was identified as a top trend in a recent SecureWorks Threat Intelligence Executive Report. Like PowerShell, WMI is often used to create file-less attacks that are difficult to identify and stop with technology alone. This makes WMI the perfect tool for threat actors to use as camouflage while acting inside your organization.

Join us to learn:
• Why WMI is so risky
• Tips to identify malicious use of WMI
• How threat actors hide their tracks and how you can unmask them
• WMI threats identified by SecureWorks researchers
• How you can avoid becoming a victim to this growing threat vector

In a world where physical attack vectors are no longer the preferred way to attack a person of notoriety or a chief executive sta¬tus individual, the need for cyber executive protection to enhance existing cybersecurity programs and traditional executive protection has become greater than ever. With expanded use of information sharing through social media and use of technologies such as home automation, Executive’s habits, families and close personnel staff are being monitored, targeted and shared via the dark web for a number of reasons such as disruption of business, personal or brand embarrassment and financial gain just to name a few.

In this webcast, Chris Bullock, SecureWorks Managing Principal, will cover a new approach to mitigating risk to this emerging threat that encompasses:

• Analyzing ten domains of risk to an Executive, their family and close staff
• How to assess potential risk and exposure to the brand or reputational damage
• Guidance on which specific risk factors to monitor regularly to ensure preparedness
• How to implement the most effective and appropriate safeguards

Whether you like it or not, the security industry is being cloudified.
As IT moves into the Cloud, security must follow, and with IT losing its grip on the endpoint, Cloud is the only Security option. In addition, the Internet of Things continues to scale upwards, and Cloud computing will be its data repository, application engine, provisioning system and Security platform.

Join Hadi Hosn, Head of Security Strategy & GRC Consulting in EMEA, as he explains why cloud security is so important, and provides guidance on key considerations when building out a cloud security program.

In this webcast you will learn:
• 3 key principles for managing cloud security risk
• 5 common misconceptions and how to avoid them
• The 5 fundamental cloud security controls you should implement

The stakes for enterprise investments in threat detection and incident response capabilities are getting higher, as evidenced by empirical data from successful cyber attacks detected and remediated by SecureWorks, a Dell Technologies company.

The sheer growth and complexity of the technical threat landscape and vulnerability landscape means that merely keeping up is no longer enough. In cyber security, time is currently working in favor of the attackers — and time is the strategic advantage that the defenders need to regain.

Join Derek Brink, vice president and research fellow for Aberdeen Group, and John Collins, Operations Manager for the SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit Special Operations Team and Advisory Systems Engineer for threat intelligence services , to gain fact-based insights into:

• Real use cases where time to detect has impacted the business outcome
• Trends in threat actors and motivations – and how this affects your strategies for protection, detection, and response
• Quantifying the value and ROI of faster detection and response – for both attacks on availability (e.g., unplanned downtime or slowdown), and attacks on confidentiality (e.g., a data breach)
• The increasingly important role played by third party threat detection and incident response, in this rapidly evolving context

Most enterprise organizations have set up a security model that includes a first layer of security event management, responsible for capturing of logs, notification, filtering and some level of correlation. However, with the escalating number of users and logs from more and more devices, making sense of the noise and translating them into incidents that matter can be a daunting task.

In this webcast, Tony Merritt, SecureWorks Managing Principal, will cover how to leverage logs and tactics to integrate the proper incident response. Topics covered include:

• Sensing: The challenge of ever increasing in-bound noise and priorities
• Improving Sensing: What logs and events matter? How do you ensure you have visibility?
• Sense Making: Not all logs are created equal. The importance of correlation, business context, rules and use cases to determine if the incident matters.
• Decisions Making: An event has passed a threshold of incident viability. How do you connect logs and tactics into actionable response?

SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers will discuss details of the “NotPetya” Ransomware attack. Our experts will discuss this and similar attacks, help organizations explain the importance of avoiding malicious attempts and discuss the value of recommended mitigation tactics.

In this webcast we will discuss:
• History and timeline of this attack and how it began
• What is this ransomware, how is it different from others and how it operates
• Why this is not Petya or Goldeneye
• How to be vigilant of misinformation
• SecureWorks recommended actions to protect yourself
• Interactive Q&A session

In a recent SecureWorks engagement, 98.5% of the 3,477 commands executed by threat actors were native to the Windows operating system.

PowerShell is a popular tool that Microsoft has been including with the Windows OS since 2009, but malicious PowerShell use is rivaling ransomware in popularity with threat actors. Security products focused on preventing endpoint threats are often not enough to differentiate legitimate from malicious PowerShell use. Join us for a discussion of why PowerShell is so risky, how SecureWorks researchers identify PowerShell threats, and how you can defend your organization.

SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit - Special Operations Researcher, Lee Lawson, will discuss how security leaders and practitioners can leverage his experience to reduce the risk and understand how to defend against PowerShell threats in your organizations.

You Will Learn:
• What PowerShell is and how it is used in “living off the land” attacks
• Why built-in tools like PowerShell are so attractive to threat actors
• Examples of malicious PowerShell use
• How to defend your organization against common methods to evade prevention and detection

According to a recent SANS report, more than 60 percent of large-company CISOs brief the board at least annually and by the end of 2018, 70 percent of all boards will require CISOs to brief them quarterly.^

Deciding to what degree your security operations should be in-house vs outsourced is a major decision with significant cost and resource ramifications. Currently organizations globally face persistent security challenges, which collectively require people, process, technology, and strategy to address. This collection of challenges are further complicated by evolving business needs; expanding toolsets and platform options; and staffing retention and attrition. Join us to learn how a modern approach to security operations can help address these challenges.

SecureWorks Principal Cyber Security Operations Consultant and former Security Operations Center (SOC) manager, Travis Wiggins, will discuss how security leaders and practitioners can leverage his experience to more clearly define the requirements and make informed decisions about protecting your organization.

You Will Learn:
• Why making the right security operations decisions is critical to reduce business risk
• What to consider when planning a SOC and how to position the plan to leaders
• How to address talent retention, accountability, and scalability
• Why strategy and proper tools are key components in a successful SOC implementation

The nation's first state-mandated cybersecurity regulations regarding banking and financial services companies went into effect in New York state on March 1st. However, many businesses subject to the regulations are asking, what are these rules and how will they affect my business operations.

SecureWorks invites you to join us on April 27th for a webcast designed to help you understand these new mandates and develop an approach to ensure that your organization has a mature and effective security program in place that will not only help you achieve compliance but will improve your overall information security posture.

What you will learn:
• Which entities are covered by the mandate and what type of data needs protecting.
• The five core elements needed to establish a comprehensive cybersecurity program.
• Critical questions you should be asking your security program partner.

Fifty-two percent of security leaders rate their organizations at above average or superior when it comes to detecting or blocking ransomware before it locks or encrypts data in their systems. Yet, 36 percent also say their organizations were victims of ransomware in the past year. And 57 percent say they are more likely to be a ransomware target in 2017.

These are among the results of the 2017 Ransomware Defense Survey. Aimed at determining the true impact of ransomware on organizations across industries, the survey uncovers some stark contrasts.

ISMG Vice President of Editorial, Tom Field and SecureWorks Senior Security Researcher, Keith Jarvis, will analyze the Ransomware Defense Survey results and will discuss how security leaders can put these findings to work in their organizations.

You Will Learn About:
• The true impact of ransomware on organizations across industries
• What works and doesn't work when it comes to detecting and remediating ransomware
• Key investments enterprises are making in 2017 to shore up their ransomware defenses
• How to prevent and detect ransomware before it takes root and cripples your operations

In our "2017 Cybersecurity Threat Insights Report for Leaders" report, we shared several key findings and observations from our client engagements and about the security industry. This webcast covers our findings and observations but will also provide you with clear direction on where you need to focus your resources to evoke positive action in your security program.

During this webcast one of our lead Counter Threat Unit™ researchers, Chris Yule, who helped develop the report, gives his perspective, observations and guidance through responses to a series of questions led by our Product Marketing Director, David Puzas.

You Will Learn About:
• Our observations from our engagements and findings
• How you need to rethink core security processes and operations
• Whether the current nature and behaviors of the threat are evolving or staying constant
• What the common attack vectors are and how to protect your organization against the fundamentals of cyber-attacks
• How to focus your resources from a tactical and strategic perspective

While many organizations have technical testing performed a couple of times a year for a number of reasons: such as identifying network vulnerabilities or satisfying industry compliance requirements, the results and lessons learned are typically limited.

However, wouldn’t it be nice to see what tactics and techniques some of the most skilled testers out there are utilizing across all industries in all different levels of scope? Think of it as opportunity to learn from the good guys simulating the bad guys without having to have it done to your organization.

Watch this webcast and hear from some of SecureWorks most skilled technical testers, Nate Drier and Trenton Ivey, talk about lessons learned from some of their most challenging engagements and the trends they are seeing with clients and their defense practices.

Key topics covered include:

- Examples of real-world engagements
- Tactics and techniques commonly used to achieve their objectives
- Trends and weaknesses they are seeing in defenses
- Lessons learned

There has been a proliferation of ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations that has ushered in a new wave of extortionware and a new generation of malware attacks. While these types of attacks are not new, they have become more insidious, sophisticated and are growing in popularity.

In order to defend against such attacks, healthcare organizations need to develop an enterprise information security strategy that not only provides visibility into networks and endpoints but also outlines comprehensive response plans in the event of an attack.

Attend this webinar to learn the truth behind ransomware attacks and also how to better prepare your organization to think beyond HIPAA compliance and think holistically about its information security program. SecureWorks Healthcare Information Security Principal, Cliff Kittle, will answer vital questions about the nature of ransomware and provide actionable recommendations to meet the challenges of today's threat environment. You will learn valuable insights about how your organization can best adopt the right strategies, tools and skills needed for a stronger information security position.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- What is the motivation behind the proliferation of Ransomware attacks? What are the projections for 2017?
- How does my organization prepare to detect and block ransomware?
- What information security strategies do healthcare organizations need to be protected?
- How does my organization respond if attacked by ransomware?
- How do I ensure that I don't become a victim (again)?

Cloud computing is enabling business transformation as organizations accelerate time to market and business agility.

Evolving cloud technologies and approaches, however, can create security gaps and human errors. Data protection rests with you and your organization and not the cloud provider.

Attend this webinar and you will:

- Discover key cloud security trends and insights for 2017 and beyond
- Understand the state of public cloud security today
- Find out how you can exceed Board expectations around the cloud
- Learn why no cloud organization is too small or too remote to be targeted
- Get steps you can take to ensure that your security meets evolving business demands

When companies move their IT assets to the cloud, they have an opportunity to realize cost savings, accelerate innovation and improve IT performance. Unfortunately, the utility of the cloud is constrained by perceptions and misperceptions about security and control. And even without appropriate controls in place, organizations are moving to the cloud at a very fast pace.

For those of us responsible for security, this is a terrifying proposition--our most precious assets are seemingly moving outside of our control. However, perhaps, the cloud is more secure than you realize. Perhaps the cloud is a chance for a restart for how your organization looks at security of its data and applications. In this webcast, we’ll dispel some of the misperceptions that exist and jump right into both “lift and shift” and cloud native strategies for migrating to the cloud securely. Knowledge is power and this is an opportunity to advance your team’s understanding of the cloud and how to accelerate the transition.

Imagine a marketplace where illegal vendors offer hackers a wide range of goods, tools, and training to enable them to exploit or breach unsuspecting individuals, groups or organizations. Now imagine the walls of this marketplace lined with advertisements offering services and information. The point is, the underground marketplace is booming and only getting bigger, more sophisticated, and competitive.

Register to take a journey with James Bettke, SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researcher, Sean O’Connor and Shawn Cozzolino from the SecureWorks CISO Intel team as they walk you through their time spent in the Underground, tracking hackers in numerous forums and marketplaces all over the world.

When you attend this interactive webinar, you will walk away with:
- Notable trends occurring year over year in the underground hacker market
- Real examples of goods and services for sale to enable cyber-crime
- Tips on how to protect data and additional security advice

Learn how Threat Hunting delivers high certainty in detecting compromise

Many organizations have information security protections in place that still fail to answer with high a level of certainty, "Have we already been compromised?" A cyber threat such as malware or even a large scale Advanced Persistent Threat could be hiding in areas of your network and go unnoticed by the untrained eye.

That’s where Threat Hunting comes in.

During this interactive webinar, Justin Turner, Director of the Targeted Threat Hunting & Response Team, will share what Hunting is, what it should tell you, and cut through industry noise. He will share experiences and insights from actual hunting engagements and will also provide recommendations for security leaders and practitioners on how to identify indicators of attacker presence leveraging threat intelligence for context to determine how to engage and resist the adversary.

In addition, you will:
- Learn what Targeted Threat Hunting must do for you
- Hear real-world examples of previous incidents and how targeted threat hunting was used to remove entrenched adversaries
- Get recommendations on strategies and tactics to aid you in your hunting

This webinar will explore another aspect of the CISO’s role as an essential business leader: guiding the organization through the crisis of a breach.

Featuring insights from CISOs and C-suite leaders who have been there and done that, the program will address incident response planning, setting C-suite and board expectations, and tips for providing the right information in a breach crisis situation to aid decision-making and public disclosures. Learn how to establish your role as part of the solution team, and how to avoid a reactionary response that too often leads to finger-pointing at the security team. You’ll take away actionable insights to apply to your own journey as an essential business leader.